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EU threatens to ban vaccine exports to UK amid ‘crisis of century’
The European Union on Wednesday threatened to ban exports of Covid-19 vaccines to Britain to safeguard scarce doses for the bloc’s own citizens facing a third wave of the pandemic that would jeopardise plans to restart travel this summer.With the number of coronavirus-related deaths topping 550,000 and less than one-tenth of the EU’s population inoculated, European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen said the epidemiological situation was worsening.“We are in the crisis of the century,” she…